History of the English language

• There is an astonishing close relationship among English, most of the European languages and Sanskrit.
• All these languages are of common origin.
• They belong to the Indo-European Family of languages.
• Linguists like Albert C. Baugh, Grimm, Verner and others explain this relationship.
• Baugh shows the common origin of many words in these languages.
• Grimm explains the general consonant shift in these languages.
• Verner explains certain consonant shifts unintelligible to Grimm. In other words, Verner deals with the exceptional consonant shift.